According to Amazon, The Girl On the Wall's rank today is #180,692 out of over one million paid books selling on Amazon.com.This puts me in the top 20% of books selling on Amazon.Yay!Now, the day the book was released, I ranked #37,653 out of over a million.Double Yay!How many books does this translate to? Honestly, I have no clue.I think these rankings are of limited usefulness for that reason.And, on top of that, go try to fit 37,653 into a cheer. I'm number 37,653! I'm number 37, 653! It…See More

Hello, my handful of human readers!My book has its own bookstore page!It is for SALE! Caveat: epub and PDF formats only, so far.http://my.bookbaby.com/book/the-girl-on-the-wallis the web address for my Bookbaby bookshop page, where you can buy and download my completed memoir The Girl On the Wall: Liberation from a Shoah Ghost for $9.99!So those of you who want to buy my book, go to that webpage with a credit card at the ready!Did…See More

To get my memoir, The Girl On the Wall, published. I wrote and rewrote until it was really good, then thought about how to get it out there. Then I realized that to get it "out there," that is, into the hands of my family, friends and children, I had to give a few things up.First, I gave up on the traditional agent-publisher route. And now I have a ship date of March 17! My story, which is a story of self-discovery through Shoah research, is not that different from many other people's. Are…See More

To get my memoir, The Girl On the Wall, published. I wrote and rewrote until it was really good, then thought about how to get it out there. Then I realized that to get it "out there," that is, into the hands of my family, friends and children, I had to give a few things up.First, I gave up on the traditional agent-publisher route. And now I have a ship date of March 17! My story, which is a story of self-discovery through Shoah research, is not that different from many other people's. Are…See More

"I published both paperbook and Kindle. I know how to format, I kept things simple (black & white). Amazon's Createspace offers all kinds of editing options, and marketing, etc., however, all I needed was to get the product out there. …"

"Oh dear, sorry you had this experience. I pubbed my very 1st book five months ago (The Female Assumption: A Mother's Story, Freeing Women from the View that Motherhood is a Mandate) and it cost me nothing to pub, but it has cost me a lot to…"

I got tired of waiting for agents and querying agents, so I decided to self-publish my book The Girl On The Wall: liberation from a ghost of the Shoah. For reasons I outline below, I decided to go with Bookbaby to do the publishing. If any of you decide to use Bookbaby, make sure your book is under 200 pages, and black and white.My book is neither. I decided to go for color printing because of all the color pictures, and the page count is 275, so I'm paying close to $5000 for 100 copies and…See More

To get my memoir, The Girl On the Wall, published. I wrote and rewrote until it was really good, then thought about how to get it out there. Then I realized that to get it "out there," that is, into the hands of my family, friends and children, I had to give a few things up.

First, I gave up on the traditional agent-publisher route. And now I have a ship date of March 17!

My story, which is a story of self-discovery through Shoah research, is not that different from…

I got tired of waiting for agents and querying agents, so I decided to self-publish my book The Girl On The Wall: liberation from a ghost of the Shoah. For reasons I outline below, I decided to go with Bookbaby to do the publishing. If any of you decide to use Bookbaby, make sure your book is under 200 pages, and black and white.…

Preeva,
Yes. My book is out and is available on Amazon. It's also at Kepler's and at Books, Inc. in Palo Alto where I'm doing a signing on October 5 at 7:00 PM. Please come and bring friends. Let's start the back alley writing group soon.
Ariel

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